black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.

Bertolt Brecht

All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Fool Government Splits
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Impact Lying Mistakes
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Order Reality Tables
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Light Planning Shining
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Fall Rain Summer
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Men Show Traded
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Mistake Wine Wisdom
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Anger Dies Moral
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Account Knows Science
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Common Folk Leader War
A theater without beer is just a museum
BERTOLT BRECHT

Beer Museums Theater
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
It was never decreed that a god mustn’t pay hotel bills.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Bills Hotel Pay
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Allies Art Mean
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Helping Insurance Praying
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Book Men Weapons
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Dwelling Object People Tool
Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Dammed Easy Important
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Fire Nothing World
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
BERTOLT BRECHT

Storm Tree Violent
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
BERTOLT BRECHT

Country Hero Needs
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Order Reality Representation
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Joy Nightmare One Other
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Art Mirrors Special
The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Eran Hopefully Mobilization Out Place Seller Written
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
BERTOLT BRECHT

Criminals Doe Lying

Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bertolt Brecht Quotes